lolicon-iconwrote:
back to the alucard utsuho fight, i just realised that we don't really know much about death in touhou, either.
if a character gets hit, they explode into several pieces, but then regenerate. and if this is the case, where do ghosts come from, and even more puzzling, is youmu who is a half ghost. how does that work?

and do these rules apply to utsuho, who is in litteral hell? i mean, if she dies, where does she go? heaven? but what of tenshi who resides in heaven?

can alucard kill ghosts, or angels?

more research is required.

lets breakdown the answer:

since we need to go by facts, here's the lowdown of my limited knowledge of this area.

1. Characters who are hit in danmaku don't actually die. instead, they just take spiritual damage. if you take enough of it, you are rendered useless and unable to fight for a short while. now you're wondering why the MC has to fire so many compare to boss characters who only need to give a single hit. this is because the MC has a weaker bullet strength in exchange for constant streaming (if you look at youmu's slash attack in TH13, you'll notice its alot slower but stronger than a regular bullet). Also, Youmu is technically half-phantom. She was born that way. Don't ask how, she just was.

2. Youkai are judged differently as they are a phenomenon instead of an actual being. Reimu once said that youkai will disappear if they're existence are forgotten (wild and horned hermit). Regarding Heaven or Hell, the person will ascend to whichever or reincarnation depending on the judgement of the Yama (assuming they survive the journey through the sanzu river)

3. Weeeellll....... debatable. Can you kill that which is already dead?

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